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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. FileMaker vs. Rockset vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#180	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

bigobject.io

www.claris.com/filemaker

rockset.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.rockset.com

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Rockset

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2015

1983

2019

2015

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

ingestion from XML files supported

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

via plugins

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

PHP

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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